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Scott Von Doviak

Scott Von Doviak

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Biography:
I am a film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. My book <i>Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of Redneck Cinema</i> was published in December 2004 by McFarland Press.
Favorites:
Taxi Driver, Sunset Blvd., M*A*S*H, Brazil, Dr. Strangelove, Manhattan, Slacker, Chinatown, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Blue Velvet, Jaws, Apocalypse Now, The Wizard of Oz
Publications:
culturevulture.net , Film Threat , Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com , Nerve.com
Total Reviews:
390
Total QuickRatings:
3
Location:
Austin, TX

Listing Of All Reviews & Articles

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
— —— Walking Dead () — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 11, 2011
B+ 55% Hood To Coast (2010) " An engaging slice of Americana that almost manages to make back-breaking physical exertion look like a hell of a good time." — AV Club
Posted Aug 2, 2011
72% The Adjustment Bureau (2011) " I think I would have liked it better had it been made in the '70s and starred Charlton Heston, but it's a hard movie to hate." — Nerve.com
Posted Mar 3, 2011
43% The Green Hornet (2011) " Gondry's film does have its goofy charms, even though it never quite decides what kind of movie it wants to be." — Nerve.com
Posted Jan 13, 2011
— —— Gotterdammerung: The Enemy at the Gates (2009) — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2010
86% Inception (2010) " Plays like Ocean's 11 on Elm Street as written by Philip K. Dick, and that's mostly a good thing. " — Nerve.com
Posted Jul 15, 2010
75% Greenberg (2010) " Baumbach proves he's as good as anyone at producing the kind of laughter that sticks in your throat." — Nerve.com
Posted Mar 26, 2010
53% Green Zone (2010) " The pacing is intense without being frenetic, and the chases and gun battles are served up with Greengrass's trademark jittery fervor." — Nerve.com
Posted Mar 12, 2010
51% Alice in Wonderland (2010) " Tim Burton seems to have completely misinterpreted his source material, but that's hardly a surprise at this point. It's more like his trademark." — Nerve.com
Posted Mar 5, 2010
83% The Ghost Writer (2010) " The element of paranoia Polanski wove so well through movies like Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby is on full display here." — Nerve.com
Posted Feb 26, 2010
68% Shutter Island (2010) " A supremely well-crafted thriller from an elder statesman whose love of cinema still burns through every frame." — Nerve.com
Posted Feb 19, 2010
34% The Wolfman (2010) " Stuffy and old-fashioned, taking itself way too seriously even at its silliest moments. - NERVE.COM" — culturevulture.net
Posted Feb 12, 2010
28% Dear John (2010) " The film's second half is a steep descent into the depths of movie hell, as one pathetically heart-tugging twist follows another. - NERVE.COM" — culturevulture.net
Posted Feb 5, 2010
58% Edge of Darkness (2010) " In the end, all the plotting is basically thrown out the window anyway to focus on a gun-toting Gibson hunting down the people who've wronged him. - NERVE.COM" — culturevulture.net
Posted Jan 29, 2010
27% Extraordinary Measures (2010) " All the usual landmarks along the inspirational-movie highway. - NERVE.COM" — culturevulture.net
Posted Jan 22, 2010
66% Youth in Revolt (2010) " The heavy lifting falls to Cera, who can't quite carry the weight of his dual performance. - NERVE.COM" — culturevulture.net
Posted Jan 8, 2010
83% Avatar (2009) " Like staring at the world's most expensive screensaver. - NERVE.COM" — culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 18, 2009
76% Invictus (2009) " Is there even any point in mentioning that Freeman gives a dignified performance? He's practically playing the concept of Dignity. - NERVE.COM" — culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 11, 2009
24% Serious Moonlight (2009) " Plays out like a sitcom version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" — culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 4, 2009
21% Planet 51 (2009) " Plays to the cheap seats rather than exploring its admittedly clever premise to the fullest." — culturevulture.net
Posted Nov 20, 2009
39% 2012 (2009) " This isn't disaster porn, it's a disaster gang-bang." — culturevulture.net
Posted Nov 13, 2009
52% The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) " At its best, Goats maintains a giddy Dr. Strangelove-via-the-Coen-Brothers vibe." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Nov 6, 2009
86% The House of the Devil (2009) " More concerned with stretching nail-biting suspense to the breaking point than finding new ways of making heads explode." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Oct 30, 2009
49% Antichrist (2009) " On a narrative level, it's gobbledygook, as if von Trier has dredged up the details of a nightmare and filmed them in an attempt to get at some primal truths." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Oct 26, 2009
74% Where the Wild Things Are (2009) " Aimlessly trudging through woods or desert, sniping and clawing at each other, Carol and his fellow wild things come to resemble the H.R. Pufnstuf crew on downers." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Oct 16, 2009
11% Couples Retreat (2009) " The whole production just comes off as a paid vacation at Club Med for Vaughn and friends." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Oct 9, 2009
90% Zombieland (2009) " It's hard not to be entertained (assuming your definition of entertainment includes exploding skulls and spattered intestines)." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Oct 2, 2009
78% The Informant! (2009) " Closer to a Coen Brothers farce than A Civil Action or North Country." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Sep 18, 2009
57% 9 (2009) " There's no denying that Acker has a knack for bleak landscapes and an inventive salvage-yard approach to character design, but his narrative skills are less developed." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Sep 11, 2009
63% Extract (2009) " A "sympathy for the boss" comedy could conceivably work, but Judge has neglected to supply the laughs this time around." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Sep 4, 2009
89% Inglourious Basterds (2009) " For anyone who has been hoping to see Tarantino back at the top of his game, the must-see movie of the summer has finally arrived." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Aug 21, 2009
60% A Perfect Getaway (2009) " Doesn't want to be anything more than a ninety-minute thrill ride, and unlike most of the bloated blockbusters of late, it succeeds on its own terms." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Aug 7, 2009
68% Funny People (2009) " Funny People isn't exactly a chore to sit through, but it's awfully slack and self-indulgent." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jul 31, 2009
67% Brüno (2009) " a hit-and-miss brand of humor, as likely to leave you squirming from embarrassment as howling with laughter." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jul 10, 2009
68% Public Enemies (2009) " Even the bank jobs and prison breaks feel perfunctory and enervated." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jul 3, 2009
50% The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) " I can think of worse ways to while away a hot, sticky summer afternoon than ducking into the air-conditioned comfort of the multiplex for a couple of hours worth of jacked-up, seat-rattling, subway-heisting action." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jun 11, 2009
—— After Last Season () " "Intensely boring, thoroughly disorienting and so technically incompetent it achieves several deeply unnerving effects entirely by accident."" — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jun 7, 2009
26% Land of the Lost (2009) " A soulless special effects flick crossed with a tired gross-out comedy." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jun 4, 2009
92% Drag Me to Hell (2009) " Entertaining enough in its squishy-squirmy way, and the payoff delivers a little jolt of that old time Raimi magic." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted May 27, 2009
95% Star Trek (2009) " As unlikely as it once seemed, it looks like the ol' Enterprise has a few more light-years left in it after all." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted May 6, 2009
88% Adventureland (2009) " The plot mechanics are a drag because Adventureland is at its best when it's in laid-back, hanging out mode." — culturevulture.net
Posted Apr 2, 2009
72% Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) " Monsters vs. Aliens tries very hard to entertain every demographic in the audience, although it's at its most enjoyable when it's not trying quite so hard." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Mar 26, 2009
64% Watchmen (2009) " The approach is depressingly literal, and none of the scenes build on what has come before -- they're just meticulously reconstructed Scenes From Watchmen." — culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 4, 2009
89% Coraline (2009) " For a movie that rarely leaves the house, Coraline takes a number of inspired detours." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Feb 5, 2009
45% Yes Man (2008) " No comedy classic, but it packs enough laughs into 104 minutes to justify the price of admission (or at least a matinee ticket)" — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Dec 18, 2008
78% Doubt (2008) " Award-worthy performances aren't enough to keep Doubt from falling flat in the end." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Dec 11, 2008
25% Four Christmases (2008) " To say that Vaughn is phoning it in these days would be an insult to telecommuters everywhere." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Nov 26, 2008
83% JCVD (Van Dammage) (2008) " JCVD has points of interest, but it may leave you feeling like you've just slowed down to look at a car wreck." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Nov 21, 2008
69% Synecdoche, New York (2008) " The most ambitious, challenging, frustrating and thrilling American movie since I'm Not There - maybe since Mulholland Drive." — culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 24, 2008
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